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but, owing to a slight contraction, type cast from " grown " matrices can be generally detected by an expert typefounder. An j exact reproduction can be obtained by a method in which either a punch-engraving or a matrix -cutting machine plays an impor- tant part. The type to be copied is placed under a powerful lens in a strong light, and the much-enlarged image projected carefully traced. From the drawing a punch is engraved and a matrix struck, or the matrix is cut direct by means of a template and pantograph. Neither of these processes, however, would have been possible with the Morris types, owing to the surveillance exercised over them ; so that designing and punch - engraving were necessary for imitating, in the first instance at any rate. This is what took place with Morris-type reproduction, so far as the leading American typefoundry (the first to reproduce) was concerned, though its product has since been used for " matrix-growing " by some of the smaller English foundries. There are very few punch- or matrix-cutting machines in this country. CHARLES S. BURDON.

COLONIES : THEIR ARMS (11 S. iv. 368). In reply to VERUS, who asks what illustrated work contains the arms of our Colonies and dependencies, I may say that a volume in two parts was published last year by H.M. Govern- ment containing coloured illustrations of the " Flags, Badges, and Arms of the British Dominions beyond the Seas." This can be obtained at a moderate price from any of the agents for the sale of official publications. P. EVANS LEWIN, Librarian R.C.I.

MANOR 01 MILTON - NEXT - GRAVESEND (US. iv. 367). Ls it not possible that John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, and his co- grantees really acquired this manor in 1392 as trustees for the Burley family ? Sir Simon Burley was a close friend of the royal family, and Joan, Princess of Wales, mother of John Holland, in her will, dated within her castle of Wallingford, 7 Aug., proved 9 Dec., 1385, appointed him one of her executors.

FRANCIS P. MAROHANT. Streatham Common.

John Haddele (Hadeleye), who granted this manor to Reynold Cobhain in exchange for lands in Middlesex and Essex, mentions in his will, dated 1 Jan., 1405/6, his manor called " Cobammes," in the parish of Stepney ('Calendar of Wills, Court of Husting, London,' part ii. pp. 417-18). At his Inq. p.m., 11 Hen. IV., he was found to

hold, by grant of Reynold Cobham and Elizabeth his wife, ten acres in Stratford Langthorne, Essex, held of the Abbot of Stratford, and a manor called " Cobbammes " in Stepney, Middlesex, held of the Bishop of London. If the date at which he became possessed of this property could be ascer- tained, it would fix the date of the transfer of Milton. S. L.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S iv. 28). I very much doubt whether any author could be found for the two Latin lines quoted by J. T. F. from a stained window at Honington, Warwickshire. I should conjecture they were not part of any poem, but composed in order to be placed under a representation of Christ.

Last summer I copied the following, which differs in only two words, from under a crucifix, erected in 1777, close to the site of the old Mtinstertor, in the town of Fritz- lar:

Effigiem Ohristi cum transis semper houora.

Xon tarn en effigiem sed quern designat adora.

Probably they were to be found at one time in many places.

In Nathan. Chytrams's ' Delicise ' (ed. 3, 1606, p. 510) is an elegiac couplet, the first line of which bears some resemblance to those quoted above. It is said to be under a crucifix on a monument erected in memory of Frederic II. of Denmark, near Segeberg, Hoist ein, by Henry Rantzau, in 1588 : Ipsum tu Christum, quern crux designat, adora,

Atque tuum placide ferre memento crucem.

EDWARD BENSLY.

LUCK CUPS (11 S. iv. 389). A paragraph entitled ' A Goblet with a Story ' appeared in The Northampton Herald of 1 January, 1909, from which I extract the following :

"The Arniston branch of the Dundas family possesses a curious Venetian goblet, and, like the famous ' luck ' of Edenhall, they believe that their prosperity depends upon its preservation. It was given by his mother to Sir James Dundas, in the reign of Queen Mary, with an injunction to pre- serve it carefully, or misfortunes would attend the family.''

Would this be the third cup to which RAVEN refers ?

An engraving from a copyright photo- graph of 'the '"Luck of Edenhall Goblet' appeared in The Daily Mail of 16 July,. 1901. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchiiigton, Warwickshire.

In the editorial note reference is. made- to the ' : late " MR. SIDNEY HABTLAND. Fortunately, MR. HARTLAND is still living in